🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
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@stux Also seeing some sort of spam campaign regarding "monetizing your account" at the moment
@chris__martin @stux I also got it and suspended the account (a ohishin attempt).
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
Bumped into one tonight too...
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@stux to paraphrase Australia's "my.id": on the Fediverse, the way I post verifies me
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
@stux Thanks. I had two of these show up this afternoon. I didn’t see the point, so I blocked them. Sounds like I made the right call
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
@stux
what about #GazaVerified ? -
@stux
what about #GazaVerified ?@poisonpunk @stux that's a separate and (I believe) legitimate thing people are trying to manage.
I see a lot of #gazaverified people acting kinda spammy, though, but I am never sure it's not just a misunderstanding of how to use the platform or sheer desperation.
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@stux Also seeing some sort of spam campaign regarding "monetizing your account" at the moment
@chris__martin @stux Which is hilarious on the face of it. Of all the places to go to 'monetize your content' Mastodon ain't it.
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
You keep our mastodon coffee pretty darn clean of bad stuff, thanx!
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
@stux@mstdn.social arguably they are failing to act like "staff" too, anyone who actually understands how fedi instances are hosted should immediately recognize the scam I saw earlier
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
@stux@mstdn.social #sharkey and #lemmy instances will not ask you to verify too, ever.
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@MarkBrigham
Using the ellipsis (3 dots) below the toot, it brings up a menu which includes Report. It can also be done from the ellipsis on their account page.
As always, fedi.tips has this covered
https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-report-a-post-or-account-that-is-doing-something-bad/
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
@stux my home address is 293 Tanglewood Dr, New Castle, PA 16105 can you please verify me
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
@stux Just reported one myself. Yeeesh. Where’d they all suddenly spring up from?
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@stux to paraphrase Australia's "my.id": on the Fediverse, the way I post verifies me
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
@stux Reported!
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@poisonpunk @stux that's a separate and (I believe) legitimate thing people are trying to manage.
I see a lot of #gazaverified people acting kinda spammy, though, but I am never sure it's not just a misunderstanding of how to use the platform or sheer desperation.
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
@stux But, but... how do I know if someone's a celebrity if there's no verification badge?
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Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.
Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff
Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse
WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON
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@stux
what about #GazaVerified ?@poisonpunk @stux That’s very specific. And we never reach out to anyone to ask them to get verified.
(And I wish we didn’t need it.)
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